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    Belshazzar (redirect from Bēl-šar-uṣur)
    Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform:   Bēl-šar-uṣur, meaning "Bel, protect the king"; Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר‎ Bēlšaʾṣṣar) was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus...
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    (𒁹𒀭𒌍𒌋𒌋𒃻𒌦 Sîn-šar-iškun), who ruled as king 627–612, Ninurta-sharru-usur (Ninurta-šarru-uṣur), who played no political role Libbali-sharrat was presumably the...
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    heir to Babylonia, but the evidence is inconclusive. Nabu-shar-usur (Nabû-šarru-uṣur) – a younger son who joined Arda-Mulissu in his plot to murder Sennacherib...
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    Sargon II (redirect from Sîn-ahu-usur)
    paid back to their owners ... The name was most commonly written Šarru-kīn, although Šarru-ukīn, is also attested. Sargon's name is commonly interpreted...
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    Anatolian kingdoms were placed the authority of Aššur-šarru-uṣur. Following the appointment of Aššur-šarru-uṣur, Warpalawas II of Tuwana and Awarikus of Ḫiyawa...
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    Aššur-šarru-uṣur. Thus Hiyawa and other nearby Anatolian kingdoms were placed the authority of Aššur-šarru-uṣur. Following the appointment of Aššur-šarru-uṣur...
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    Library of Ashurbanipal. The Akkadian name is normalized as either Šarru-ukīn or Šarru-kēn. The name's cuneiform spelling is variously LUGAL-ú-kin, šar-ru-gen6...
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  • is Nabû-naṣir son of Šulmu-šarri. Witness is Šarru-emuranni son of Nabû-eṭir. Witness is Salmanu-reḫtu-uṣur. The portion of the document that is important...
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    Nabopolassar (redirect from Nabu-apla-usur)
    the letter ended with either ahi, nâsir or uṣur, and the remaining traces can fit with the name Nabû-apla-uṣur, meaning that Nabopolassar could be the other...
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    of Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 605–562 BC) was spelt in Akkadian (Nabû-kudurri-uṣur). The list of kings below uses more concise spellings when possible, primarily...
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    Sargon I (redirect from Šarru-kên I)
    Sargon I (also transcribed as Šarru-kīn I and Sharru-ken I) was the king (Išši’ak Aššur, "Steward of Assur") during the Old Assyrian period from c. 1920...
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  • which relates The throne of Ellil in the E-kur-igi-gal which Nabū-kudurri-uṣur, a former king, had fashioned – during the reign of Adad-apla-iddina, king...
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    the land of Ashur") and his grandson Arik-den-ili introduced the style šarru dannu ("strong king"). The kings during Assyria's first major phase of expansion...
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  • writing "may the name and seed of Sasî, Bel-ahu-uṣur, and their accomplices perish". In a second letter, Nabû-rēhtu-uṣur also informed the king of a vision...
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    instead. Angered by this decision, Arda-Mulissu and another brother, Nabû-šarru-uṣur, murdered their father in 681 and planned to seize the Neo-Assyrian throne...
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    throne saw many rebellions and he might have taken the regnal name Sargon (Šarru-kin in Akkadian, one possible interpretation being "legitimate king") in...
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    founded by Bel-bani, which ruled Assyria throughout most of its history, is conventionally known as the Adaside or Adasi dynasty, after Bel-bani's father...
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    (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒁹𒀭𒌍𒌋𒌋𒃻𒌦, romanized: Sîn-šar-iškun or Sîn-šarru-iškun, meaning "Sîn has established the king") was the penultimate king...
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    the other kinglets allied to Assyria, especially Pakruru of Per-Sopdu and Šarru-lū-dāri, since Ashurbanipal was aware that he had to rely on those kinglets...
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    pro-Assyrian party, as evidenced by the name of a qēpu known as Aššur-bēl-uṣur. Radner disagrees, as qēpus were directly appointed by the Assyrian kings...
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  • the Assyrian hinterland. Here he may also have encountered Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur, who like him claimed victories against the Amorite lands and the Lullubû...
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    and his grandson Arik-den-ili (r. c. 1317–1306 BC) introduced the style šarru dannu ("strong king"). Adad-nirari I's inscriptions required 32 lines to...
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    Shalmaneser's time was the palace herald Bel-harran-beli-usur, who founded a city, Dur-Bel-harran-beli-usur (named after himself), and claimed in a stele...
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    city of Assur and maintained Assyria's colonies in Asia Minor. Sargon I or Šarru-kīn I (c. 1920 BC – c. 1881 BC), son and successor of Ikunum, reigned as...
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    in which they have the privilege of bearing the title of "great king" (šarru rabû), which involved abundant correspondence and exchanges of gifts (šulmānu)...
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    48. Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 15. Panitschek, Peter (2008). LUGAL, šarru, basileús: Von der Uruk-Zeit bis Ur III (in German). Peter Lang. p. 41....
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  • men. He took 14,576 captives". Various governors, including Lugal-gis, Sarru-alli, Ur-Tur, and Lugal-ajagu then ruled Adab under direct Akkadian control...
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